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• 4. THE CONTROVERSY BEHIND OBAMA'S NEW PICK FOR FBI • James Comey, deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, testified in Congress that he thought Bush's no-warrant wiretapping program was questionable. • • 5. WHAT HAPPENED TO CHINESE BABY TRAPPED IN SEWER • Authorities turned the baby over to his grandparents and aren't charging the 22-year-old mother who admitted giving birth to him in a toilet. • • 6. RICIN LETTERS TARGET NEW YORK MAYOR • The threatening posts containing traces of the deadly poison were addressed to Bloomberg and to his gun-control group in Washington. • • 7. TALIBAN DEALT BLOW AFTER DRONE STRIKE • Pakistani intelligence officials say the group's deputy leader, Waliur Rehman, was buried hours after he was killed in the strike. • • 8. WHY OBAMACARE COULD CANCEL YOUR HEALTH PLAN • The AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports that many private policies could be canceled because they don't measure up. • • 9. JAMES TAYLOR, AEROSMITH TO PLAY FOR BOSTON • Jimmy Buffett also joins performers with ties to Massachusetts for a benefit concert for the bombing victims. • • 10. WHO's CHARGED WITH DRY-ICE BLAST AT DISNEYLAND • A 22-year-old park employee was arrested on suspicion of putting the device in a theme park trash can, where it exploded. •
AP News in Brief AP Exclusive: Lawyer says soldier charged in Afghan massacre will plead guilty to avoid death
• SEATTLE (AP) -- Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby. • Next week, Bales will recount what happened next -- the slaughter of 16 villag (Continued on page 29)
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